Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-15
BILL NYE ON HIS TRAVELS.
4 Lack of Free Passes Makes Trouble FOR
Sleeping-Car and Ea6ng-House feopie-
The Porters are Lonely Now.
Ne4g York World.

S~ieeping-Car and Eatng-House ieoPie-
The Porters are Lonely Now.
Ne,C York World.
Fewer people seem to be travelling Tor
the delirious Joy Of travelling this year
than ever before in the history OF the
try. Eatirg-houses, dining-clrs, sleepIhs-
cars and hotels seem to suffer most. A
few days 10 l had the pleasure OF ricing
from st. Paul 10 Chicago, and from CM-
| cago to New York, over one OF the most
| fluent railway lines in each instance, ana
| could not shut my eyes To the tact That
the new Interstate commerce law mas
made A difference. From Cleveland
TO Buffalo | rode in a special
car. II WAS the special sleeping-c car A0er,
deeu. occupied by myself and suite. lhao
q conductor, a porter and a brakeman 10
do my bidding, and the whole ear was
mine, mine alone. TWAS p~leaSintat hIs',
but finally il seemed lonely, 50 called
| the porter and engaged him IN CONVERSE
ton. lie said it had been that way a
GOOD deal during the month OF April. One
day, he said that he and a spotier glir.d
NJ each other all the way from Elkhart,
Ind, 10 Syracuse, y. \. He told me that
it was time for memory and for tears.
| Sleeping. cars, he said, have been Tor years
the hot-bed of the nnual pass. 1t ~ ior
that reason that sleeper after sleeper is be-
ing side-;racked. lie WAS a bright, intclll-
gent y0ung man. with 4 clear, olive-oil
| complexion, and when | LETT hun | wrnng
out his hand for him and gave him II small
piece Of money, which | hope he will eN-
pend wisely.
also conversed with the train boy,
sometimes ~coarselv aud incorrectly called
the peanutter." He came into my special
car to offer mc an opportunity To speculate
in a box of choice figs AMI an armini oi
raDcr.cavrred p%rOnounS, including ~,
Thou" He" Me" she" and 1T"
lie heaved a sigh when | spoke ri the new
law, and sitting down beside me, he looked
sadly in my open. ingenious face, whiI"
he rested nine or ten dollars worth O! books
on my knee.
Yes" he said, inserting a solid thumb
in the corner of his eyes i'll search at Il en-
der, at is I'M Erie of financial depression.
People that pay their fare bring their din
her, ride in the city coach and sleep with
their mouths open. They buy nuthln
In fact, nobody travels now unless
it's a case of life and death. Then
they take q hard boiled egg and a
blanket and borrow the papers. And
now | see some Sardinc from SnaggSVille
says that under the inter- State Commerce
law \ peanutter has really M right To ride
free any more than anybody else, not being
a railroad emplyc! am tired of il. can
sit here and see my figs grow old on my
hands. Just look IT the lines Of care on
that box Of figs, Two weeks ago | hal To
take all the prizes out of my candy pack
ares and sell 'cm for what | could get
You noticed | didn't 20 through the cars
to-day putting fresh pecan meat mcEery-
body's lap? That's because ! CANT afford
it. The Injustice and clean-cut ~cuSscdncss
of this new law is invading every home
and desolating every hearthstonc in the
land. Lemmc tell you The Girl DetcC-
tive: or, Hunted To Halifax aud Back
Again Without Feed or Water by the au-
thor of only n Dark-Blu PHI"
Then the train conductor came along,
drcamily punched my ticket aud asked me
if ] wanted dinner at Buffalo. ! said !
did.
Then there are two of you 10 dine
there to day." he said, ''for there il an
other man in the next To the last sleeper
who will Join you in the dining hall. Gen
orally we have six tables full on this tram
for the eating house at Buffalo. To-day
there are two men on the whole train who
will dine there, and there is no profit IN
either 0fthem, for the other man IL even
more gaunt than you are"
'"ro what 90 y0u attribute ali this?' !
asked, in Il quiet, grammatical manner,
which put him at once at his ease.
"Oh, il ~ the new announcement Com
mercc law. Go into the dining-room IT
Buffalo and you will see about twenty
walters, cooks and clerks and two guests
at the table, counting yourself, while 40
doubt an old gentleman will take n stand
up ut the lunch counter, consisting oI n
cup of coffee, for which he pays ten cents,
and Il dOughnut, which he brings from
home in his pocket, and which has little
flakes OF smoking tobacco on it. An eat
ing-hOusc man from the west rode through
here Yesterday on an old and tOtiering
scaIpcr's ticket. and he said that within
thirty days he had been compelled Ia
mortgage hi+housc TO the head cook, and
the har-kccpcr had u Chattcl mortgage on
the billiard table and fixtures. He claim
ed that the life of an catlng-hnuse man
was anything hut happy anyhow, and
now 1t was a great big wicked word.
"Formerly," he said, people came and
ate. kicked about the price and went away.
Now they stay at home"
'But what do you think IL going TO be-
the ultimate of this law" ] asked, in All
elOcutionary tone of voice.
"Why, | don't believe that in a year
from now there will be enough of it left 10
wad 4 gun. Ignorant people think that
rs the law is obnoxious to the railroads il
ought 10 he n big thing for the people,
but hat is not always the ease. And look
at the inconsistency Of the thing. Years
ago Congress gave big grants 10 the rail-
roads to build their lines into new and
undevelOpcd territory West. Now the
West has got to move Fast and grow up
with the country.
] do hot yet know exactly what course
TO pursue, hut there will be q meeting for
the purpose OF taking some definite action
in the matter here in New York next
week. The meeting will be largely at.
tended by the railway eating house men,
the theatrical and travelling men, the
sleeping and dining car people and myself
BILL NYE.
HOESFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE